{"id":38471,"date":"2019-08-02T11:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T10:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/?p=38471"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:27:28","slug":"how-to-update-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-update-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Update WordPress Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updating the theme(s) that you are using on your WordPress website is not only about getting new features but also ensuring the safety of your online entity.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/create-a-wordpress-website\/\">built your website with WordPress<\/a>, you ought to take care of it, so that it won&#8217;t fall victim to a hacker&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of actions you might want to take, to achieve the safety of your website. The first thing is getting a <a href=\"\/wordpress-hosting\/\">secure WordPress host<\/a>. Presuming that you&#8217;ve already done that, as you&#8217;ve built your website, the next important step in securing your website is to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/limit-login-attempts-in-wordpress\/\">limit the number of login attempts<\/a> or <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/secure-wordpress-admin-panel\/\">hide the backend of your WordPress<\/a>, altogether.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve done the actions mentioned above, you&#8217;ll rightfully feel more secure about your website. Still, that doesn&#8217;t mean you shouldn&#8217;t take care of plugins and themes installed on your website.<\/p>\n<p>Not only you should <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/wordpress-update\/\">keep your WordPress up to date<\/a>, but that also goes for the plugins and the themes as well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d24b49;\">Related<\/span>: <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-update-wordpress-plugin\/\">How to Update WordPress Plugin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to Know Whether a Theme has a New Release<\/h2>\n<p>As we mentioned, you&#8217;ll have to keep an eye on the new available versions of the themes on your WordPress website. But unlike plugins, themes won&#8217;t tell you whether a new release is available right after you\u00a0<a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/enter-wordpress-admin-panel\/\">enter your WordPress Dashboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether a theme has a new release could be found by either going to Appearance -&gt;Themes, where all of the themes installed on your website are, and which page we&#8217;ve used to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/install-wordpress-theme\/\">choose and install WordPress theme<\/a> in the first place or by going to the updates section of your website.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose to go with the themes page, you should bear in mind on that page, naturally, you&#8217;ll only see the <strong>themes\u00a0<\/strong>that have new releases. This means you might forget to update plugins and WordPress itself if you only go to the themes page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to Update WordPress Theme<\/h2>\n<p>To update your theme, you can either click on the updates or themes button. Depending on where you choose to click a different page will show up. If you click on the Themes options, you&#8217;ll see a familiar setting, where all of your plugins are listed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38478 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/update-wordpress-theme-300x117.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see on the image there are a total of three updates necessary. Two of them are shown on the plugins button, but the third is missing. Well, it should be on the themes or the CMS itself.<\/p>\n<p>But on the image above, as we are on the themes page, we can see that the theme is also ready for an update.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, you can either click on the Update Now link, on the top of the theme&#8217;s image or choose to go to the Updates page.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose to go with the <strong>WordPress Updates<\/strong> option, you&#8217;ll see something like this on your screen:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38479 alignnone\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/WordPress-updates-page-theme-update-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check the theme(s) you want to update, and click the Update Themes button. That&#8217;s it. Your Themes are now up to date.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/how-to-update-wordpress-plugin\/\">update your Plugins as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updating the theme(s) that you are using on your WordPress website is not only about getting new features but also ensuring the safety of your online entity. Now that you&#8217;ve built your website with WordPress, you ought to take care of it, so that it won&#8217;t fall victim to a hacker&#8217;s attack. 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